नगरावलम्बक (nagarAvalambaka)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishnagarāvalambaka, m., and °ikā, f., seemingly city-washerman and -woman: m. only Śikṣ 〔9.4〕 tṛṇapradīpaṃ dattvā nagarāvalambaka-bhūtena (Bendall and Rouse, ignoring the fem. counterpart, inhabitant of the outskirts of the town, without evident justification)
f. °ikā Mv 〔iii.311.8, 18〕
〔312.12〕 (no v.l.), apparently a woman whose job it was to hang out clothes (to dry?), cf. 〔311.11〕 pāṃsukūlaṃ (which she has just presented to the Bodhisattva) vṛkṣaśākhāye olambitvā
the gerund seems to suggest her occupation. Senart Introd. 〔p. xxix〕, étendeuse de linge (which is surely far better than his suggestion, 〔note p. 505〕, that velambikā be read by em.
this is clearly impossible, see s.v. velambaka)
Divy 〔82.11, 28〕
〔84.24〕
〔89.20, 26〕 = MSV 〔i.80.16 ff.〕 (in these passages no light seems to be thrown on the meaning by the context).
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